Indicators of children's subjective well-being
A new perspective of understanding from Latin America
Keywords:
Bienestar subjetivo, Infancia y adolescencia, Infancia en América Latina, Proyecto Children’s WorldsAbstract
The process of studying the subjective well-being of childhood and adolescence is described and carried out from a contextual ecologic perspective within the framework of the research networks between Brazil and Chile, which emerged and was promoted within the framework of the Children's Worlds - the International Survey of Children's Well-Being (ISCWeB), and the Children's Understandings of Well-being: Global and Local Contexts (CUWB), both held and supported by the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI). We highlight the main studies and quantitative and qualitative research lines on the well-being of children and adolescents generated and under development in both countries concerning contextual dimensions such as the sense of community, life at school, rights of the child, the environment, material resources, gender, and socioeconomic variables, as determinants linked to the well-being of children and adolescents in our realities.
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